Born April 7, 1913 on Staten Island, one of eight children of Joseph and Josephine Mazzei, Mrs. Mazzarese was a graduate of Curtis High School.

She was married for 65 years to Louis J. Mazzarese. Mr. Mazzarese, who owned and operated the former Mr. Lou Hair Stylist in Grant City for 30 years, died in 2002 at the age of 90. The couple lived in Stapleton before moving to Whiting, N.J., in 1970. Mrs. Mazzarese moved to Connecticut in 2003.

Mrs. Mazzarese, who worked as office manager for Dr. John Madden's orthodonture practice in St. George in the 1950s, volunteered with the Deborah Heart and Lung Hospital in Browns Mills, N.J., when she lived in Whiting.

Katherine Mazzarese said her grandmother "loved cooking gourmet Italian meals that brought family together." She also enjoyed travel and took more than a dozen trips with her husband in their lifetime.

Another of her loves was dancing, her granddaughter said, noting Mrs. Mazzarese and her husband "'cut a rug' dancing a lively Peabody just months before he passed away."

A devout Catholic, she was an active member of Immaculate Conception R.C. Church in Stapleton before moving off the Island and, with her husband, was a parishioner of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton R.C. Church in Whiting.

Mrs. Mazzarese is survived by two sons, Louis J. Mazzarese of Madison, Conn., and Michael L. Mazzarese, of Scotch Plains, N.J., and five grandchildren.

The funeral will be Thursday from the Hanley Funeral Home, with a mass at 10:30 a.m. in Our Lady Queen of Peace R.C. Church, both New Dorp. Burial will follow in Moravian Cemetery, also New Dorp.